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The Wellcome Library is one of the greatest specialist collections on the history of medicine and the medical humanities. It houses over 2.5 million items of extraordinary range and diversity, including books, films, archives, manuscripts and artworks from around the world.

The Library is making as many of its collections as possible freely available online. In addition to this selection of historical books and journals, increasing amounts of digitised material, including manuscripts and archive collections can be found on the Library website.

The Wellcome Library is part of Wellcome Collection, the free destination for the incurably curious.

Wellcome Collection is part of the Wellcome Trust, a global charitable foundation dedicated to achieving extraordinary improvements in human and animal health.

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19th Century Books The Wellcome Library has made freely available a selection of books from its historical collections, published between 1800 and 1900. The Wellcome Library is one of the greatest specialist collections on the history of medicine and the medical humanities. It houses over 2.5 million items of...
Chemist and Druggist Chemist and Druggist, the leading trade journal for the pharmacy community in the UK, has been in continuous publication since 1859. It contains a wealth of information for studying the history of medicine and pharmacy and the pharmaceutical industry. Also contained in its pages are many striking...	6,842 items
Wellcome Forensics Collection Resources digitised to compliment the Wellcome Collection Forensics exhibit, 2014-15.	84 items
Wellcome Sexology Collection Resources digitised to compliment the Wellcome Collection Sexology exhibit, 2014-15.	56 items
Wellcome Trust Publications Historic printed material published by the Wellcome Trust.	149 items